Water-mill



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WATER MILL. No. 275,922. Patented Apr. 17,1883.

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' ATTORNEY.

ISAAC R. KULP, 0F HATFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-MILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,922, dated April 17, 1883.

Application filed September 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC R. KULP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hatfield, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Mills, which improve ment is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which' Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly sectional, ofthe the water-mill embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof. Fig. 3 is a top view of the flame of the mill on a reduced scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Myinvention consists of a water-mill formed of a flume, a water-wheel, a pump, an elevated penstock, and another water-wheel, whereby the pump is operated by the smaller wheel, and the water raised thereby acts on the larger wheel, the power of which is rendered serviceable for desirable purposes.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a flume; B, a breast-wheel, which ismounted on the frameO of the mill; and 1) represents a dam. ()n the frame U is supported a pump, E, whose piston-rod F is connected to a rock ing arm, a, which is mounted on the frame G and operated by means of arms I), attached to a crank-wheel, c, the shaft of the latter carrying a pinion or wheel, 0, which meshes with a wheel, (I, on the axle or shaft of the breastwheel 13, the shaft of said wheel 0 being mounted on the frame G.

G represents the foot-pipe of the pump, which dips into the flame A, and H represents the discharge-pipe of the pump, which leads and opens into a penstock, J, the latter being 7 supported on the top of the frame 0.

Krepresents an overshot water-wheel, which larger than the wheel B, is mounted on the frame 0, beneath the penstock J, the chute L whereof overhangs the buckets of said wheel K, the flume A having a lateral extension, A, into which dips the wheel K.

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The operation is as follows: The running water, entering the flame A, acts on the small wheel B, the power whereof is communicated to the pump E, thus taking water from the flume and supplying the elevated penstock J, the water from which falling on the large wheel K and operating it, the axle 0r shaft of said wheel carrying a pulley or handwheel, whereby the power of said wheel K may be utilized. It will be seen that the water that leaves the buckets of the large wheel K returns to the flume A and joins the running water therein. It will also be seen that the small wheel is operated by an ordinary running stream of water. The pump is readily worked by the latter, and is sufficient to supply the penstock J for the operation of the larger wheel. It will-also be seen that I direct water from a running stream to an elevated penstock for operating, an overshot wheel at'a higher level, so that the said overshot wheel may be mounted on a hluffor bank or place above the stream, and its power taken at the elevated place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The water-mill consisting of the flume, dam, water-wheel, pump, elevated penstock, and a large water-wheel, combined and operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. ,A water-wheel,pump, elevated penstock, and a larger water-wheel, in combination with a dam and the flume A, having a lateral extension, A, whereby the water raised to the penstock and falling from the larger wheel returns to the flame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ISAAC R. KULP.

Witnesses JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. GRANT, 

